My Cultural Artifact

During class, all the students were assigned to come up with an object that represents them or in other word, is their cultural artifact. They were asked to add a picture of the object, explain about the cultural context of the language or the image detail of their object such as what does it says about the culture that creates it and lastly, they were asked to explain how they are identified with the object. Students chose different things due to the differences in interest, some chose musics, some chose movies, some chose social media and some chose sports. The length of the presentation varies due to different people chose different ways to present their works. For my artifact, I chose my cleats as something that identify me. The context of my object is that it represents the sport culture as it is the tool that is used to assist player while playing sports. The sports that I used my cleats to play with are Football and Softball. The cleats represents how sport is one of the biggest thing in human culture as people kept on organizing these sports events such as Olympics and kept producing the sports tools products. The cleats also demonstrate how people wanted to use the best tool in order to assist them in sports and that represents the competitive culture of human. I also talked about how different brand effect how people look at specific pair of cleats. I talked about how my old cleats are made by Pan which is Thai brand and are 600 baht and my new one are made by Adidas which is German brand and are 1800 with 40% discount. That shows how people actually values the name as something that worth paying for. These are the picture of my two pairs of cleats. The right one is Adidas Predator Absolado FG Yellow Light Flash. the left one is the Pan one, I am not certainly sure what version it is because it is pretty old. Though it is true that higher price cleats might give you slight advantage, it does not significantly improve your performance, leaving the only reason for buying more expensive cleats just for showing off. That also shows how money are playing big role in human culture.